Hayley Caronia

We're not just gonna throw human beings up there.

But why has it been decades?

And why has nobody else, no other country, been able to put a human being on the moon?

Other countries have landed objects on the moon, but they haven't put human beings up there.

And the reasons for why this is, why we stopped going to the moon after 1972, these are the reasons that people give, primarily high costs.

decreased political motivation after winning the space race, and then lack of public interest.

I don't really buy those as reasons.

And let's start with the cost.

Do you think this trip around the moon and back is going to be cheap?

I mean, I'm just going to throw this out to the chat and to the class.

Do we really think that going around the moon is not going to be a lot of money?

I mean, the Artemis 2 mission itself is part of this broader program that is costing $93 billion through 2025.

Now we're in 2026 and the single launch this week was $4 billion.

That's American taxpayer dollars.

So again, the point about public interest, if we're spending $93 billion of our dollars, oh, I'm interested.

No, I'm interested.

And clearly it's not a money saving issue.

This isn't some budget friendly trip around the moon.

And again, since when has the government ever cared about saving money?

Let's be for real.